Kitchen-cabinet.



No. 669,96l. Patented Mar. I2, 190:.

c. A. POST.

KITCHEN CABINET.

(Application filed June 11, 1900.)

(No, Model.)

Inveniar a 0.2

NITE STATES PATENT FFICE.

CHARLIE A. POST, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

KITCHEN-CABINET.

SEECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 669,961. dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed June 11, 1900.

T aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLIE A. PosT, of

Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have invented a new and useful Kitchen-Cabinet, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to kitchen-cabinets; and my object is to provide a device of this character of ornamental appearance and of simple, durable, compact, and cheap construction. I

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front view of a kitchen-cabinet embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, taken through the center of the lower portion and through the upper portion some distance forward of the center. 7

Referring now to the drawings in detail, 1 designates the base or lower portion of the cabinet, the same beingpreferably of rectangular form, as shown, and provided with a door 2 at its front side and with a cylindrical opening 3 in its top, in which the lower end of the upper or cylindrical bin portion 4 of the cabinet is secured. The upper portion 4.- of the cabinet is provided with a conical top or cover 5 and with handles 6 for convenience in moving it from place to-place.

7 is a vertical partition arranged, by preference, forward of the center of the upper or bin portion and eXt-endin g from the top of the latter about three-qu arters of its length, having its lower edge tapering downward at opposite sides and terminating in a central depending stem 7, which terminates a slight distance above the lower portion 1 of the cabinet. (See Fig. 2.)

8 designates a pair of vertical partitions extending the full length of partition 7 and its stem 7 and dividing the space between said partition and the front wall of the upper portion into the chambers 9 and the chamber 10 between chambers 9. The bottom 11 of each chamber 9 coincides with the beveled Serial No. 19,858. (No model.)

lower end of partition 7, and therefore slopes downward and inward from the wall of portion 4 of the cabinet to the partitions 8.

The bottom 12 of chamber 10 is horizontal and provides a support for a removable cup 13, the latter being arranged below the downward-con verging flanges 14: of chamber 10, said flanges forming practically a continua tion of the sloping bottoms 11 of chambers 9 in order to reliably conduct meal or any other product passing from chambers 9 through the openings 15in said partitions 8 into said cup,

said openings being controlled by pivoted valves or slide-plates 16, mounted on partitions 8 within chamber 10. The idea, of course, is to provide a receptacle or cup common to chambers 9, and which while it may receive the contents of both at the same time is adapted to receive from only one, for the reason that they will probably contain different productsfor instance, one may contain cornmeal and the other rice.

The top 17 of the chambers 9 has the usual filling-openings, closed by screw-caps 18, access to which is bad by removing cover 5. Access to cup 13 in the lower part of chamber 10 is had by opening the hinged door 19, the latterextending from the bottom of said chamber to about the top of the slide-plates or valves 16 in order that said valves or slideplates may be easily discernible when the door is open.

Arranged above the cup in a vertical series are the spice-cans 20, of the usual or any preferred construction, said spice-cans project in g through holes in the. front wall of the cabinet and resting upon supporting-strips 21, extending from the front wall to partition 7.

The lower end of the upper or bin portion of the cabinet is provided with an inverted flange of frustum shape, the same comprising the upper portion 22, the lower portion 24, and the inwardly-projecting flange 23 between said upper and lower portions, said flange serving as the rim for the sieve 25 and as a convenient means of attachment for the diametric sieve-bracing bar 26 at the under side of the sieve.

The agitator resting upon the upper side of the sieve is constructed as follows:

27 is a disk provided with a square hole 28 at its center and with a series of small holes 29 near its periphery.

3O designates a series of skeleton arms of segmental form, saidarms being of wire, whichpreferably can be bent to accommodate any sagging of the sieve, so as to always be in contact with the latter, and terminating in upwardly-projecting lugs 31, engaging contiguous holes 29 of the disk, the outer portion of the arms by preference resting upon the supporting-flange 23 of. the bin-flange.

32 is a square bolt extending down through the square hole 28 of the agitator and loosely through holes in the center of the sieve and the brace-bar and also through the arm 34, underlying the brace-bar, and secured reliably in position by a Wing-nut 38, engaging the lower threaded end 33 of the bolt. The outer end of arm 34is bentto substantially form, as at 36, so that its upper or inner arm shall almost scrape the inner side of flange 24 and its lower or outer arm underlie said flange, a rod or handle 37 being pivoted to the outer end of said arm and adapted to be alternately pushed and pulled to effect the rotation or partial rotation, as desired, of the agitator upon the sieve. The operation of the sieve of course effects the discharge of the flourin a sifted state from the bin 4 down into the pan or receptacle 39 in the lower or base portion of the cabinet.

Secured to the outer side of the bin at opposite sides of the series of cans 20 are rectangular pockets 40, wherein bottles of extracts may be conveniently kept. At opposite sides of the door 19 are secured brackets provided with arms 42, secured to the cabinet, cylindrical cups 44: being supported by having hooks 45 engaged with the said brackets,. and underlying the cups are brackets 46, so as to provide a thoroughly rigid and substantial support for the coffee and tea canisters 47, fitting in said cups.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a kitchen-cabinet possessing the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of invention, and it will also be understood that slight changes may be made as regards the form, proportion, detail construction, and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim-as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A kitchen-cabinet, consisting of an upright vertical cylinder, a transverse partition 7, dividing the upper portion of the cylinder into a front chamber and a rear chamber, vertical partitions 8, dividing the front chamber into side compartments 9, 9, and a mid dle compartment 10, a bottom for compartment 10, downwardly-con verging bottoms for compartments 9; said bottoms incidentally forming the bottom of the front chamber, and the top of the underlying or front portion of the rear chamber, a door-controlled opening to give access to the contents of the rear chamber at the lower end thereof, a door-controlled opening to give access to the said middle compartment, valve-controlled openings in partitions 8 to permit the contents of compartments 9 to pass into compartment 10, a top 17 forming the upper end of compartments 9 and 10, caps closing openings in said top, communicating with said compartments 9, and a circular cover for the cabinet which covers the top of the front chamber as well as the open upper end of the rear chamber, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLIE A. POST.

Witnesses:

H. O. RODGERS, G. Y. THORPE. 

